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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1902
Page
8
A SUN reporter surveys Indianapolis crossings amid frequent near misses and fatalities. Watchmen report crowded crossings, trains daily, and pedestrians forced back by workers. witnesses recall a horse runaway and casual local ambivalence toward elevated tracks.
At Norristown municipal hospital a daring skin graft operation saved Leslie Russell’s left arm, with tissue taken from nurse Elizabeth Wood and fellow patient George McNichol. The risky two hour procedure followed Jan 17 illness from confluent small pox and diffuse cellulitis that threatened amputation.
A list of prize winners for a shoe drawing at Brockway and Eppert's shoe store includes Carrie Partin Tillie Gehrbein May Vaught Ethel Courtney Mrs Monks and Miss Monks with addresses in East Ast Davidson Keystone Avenue Cornell Avenue and Alvyard Street. The notes identify late lucky holders of one pair of shoes from the drawing.
A compact ad style item lists Best Photos at Bennett's with 1 percent price for a few days in Washington area. It promotes bargains on upright pianos at Baldwin's and various goods from paper hangers to brushes and trimmers. Includes address 240-248 Massachusetts Ave Indianapolis and notes WM Burford. Also mentions Indiana Dental College accepting patients from 8 am to 6 pm.
A fragmentary advertisement touts Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims soothing effects on gums and pain, cures wind colic, and lists a twenty five cent bottle price.
In St Louis, Mrs Mary Heinkel lives with 30 dogs in a two story house and shed. Police say she flouts dog license laws while neighbors, irritated by constant barking, bombard the home with stones. An officer counted about 20 dogs, judging there are many more by the noise.
Donald McGrigor, 14, is sworn as deputy probate judge in New Philadelphia as his father serves a second term. He has worked as his father’s clerk, impressed townsfolk with competence, and will study at night while continuing school during the day.
Elaborate preparations are underway for the twenty fifth annual dress ball of the Concordia society at Germania hall on Thursday evening April 25. The society began November 1 1876 and has met monthly since. Living charter members include Valentine Heintz and Jos Greinsteiner. Elections occur every six months. Current officers are Lawrence Willhoff president George Bradwater vice president Frank Dewald secretary Charles Yenger treasurer. Picnics are held each summer for members and families, but the dress ball remains the public highlight.
New York report about Ralph Mertz a 35 year old boy from Dutch Kills who climbed through a railing hole at an elevated station foot near Thirty-fourth Street and landed in a vendor’s flower basket. He escaped unharmed and the owner declined payment.
New York April 18 report details Tim Downey returning from Montana after amassing $150,000 and rich mining claims. He mortgageed his Newark family home and refurnished it, funding a lavish household for his parents and sisters. He plans to return to Montana next week amid political discussion featuring John R. Ginnell.
Fire chief Connery risked his life to rescue Miss Rebecca Cross from a fourth floor room in a burning block in New Castle while a man believed to be Michael Cunningham lay dead in the nearby undertaking establishment. The body was removed as walls threatened collapse.
An Indianapolis Sun promotion offers over two hundred thousand trial bottles of Dr David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy mailed free from Rondout New York. Readers send full name and address and note the paper, to receive a pamphlet with medical advice. The ad cites high success rates and urges readers to try the laxative kidney medicine for kidney liver bladder and blood issues including arthritis dyspepsia constipation and women’s weaknesses. It warns of symptoms like back pain and frequent urination and claims the remedy cures such effects, attributing benefit to a postal card request.
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